Word: racialization
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...specific proposals I will make," he said, "will not set faction against faction, group against group. They will aim to join us together in a more perfect union." Ticking off the nation's ills-high prices, housing, racial discrimination-Dewey echoed Warren's sweet reasonableness and added a sly twist of his own. "Some of these unhappy conditions are the result of circumstances beyond the control of any government. Any fair-minded person would agree that others are merely the result of the Administration's lack of judgment, or of faith in our people. Only part...
...undergraduate of sufficiently bland racial, religious and financial status awaits the call of brotherhood. The insufficiently bland will join the Commons Club . . . The college president turns resolutely away from the whole subject: these are matters of taste and congeniality for the boys to settle among themselves-and besides, the college could never afford to take over all that real estate at today's prices...
...Federal Council of Churches and also became bishop of the New York area, Methodism's most important diocese, where he succeeded Bishop Francis J. McConnell, another famed liberal. He has carried on McConnell's work. At the Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, for example, he found no racial discrimination against patients but a rule excluding colored candidates from nursing school. After months of firm pressure from Oxnam, the hospital board repealed the rule...
...papers which did not print Sprigle found space to print a Northern Negro publisher's account of his own untroubled tour. And many more were likely to print a rebuttal to Sprigle by Hodding Carter, the able Mississippi editor who won a Pulitzer prize for his editorials on racial tolerance...
Says Deutsch: "I'm not a crusader. I'm just against evil things that don't have to be." Among them: racial bias, maltreatment of juvenile delinquents and the insane. In 1943 a story he never printed - but showed to the War Department for security clearance - ended the barbarous expedient of bringing some psychoneurotic veterans home from overseas in wire cages...